York, New York, 1927.
Freud analyzes human intrinsic behaviors including the inability to suppress
the human appetite for money and power. He praises science and logic describing
how religion, like Nazism, is a threat to society.
2. Fromm, Erich. Psychoanalysis & Religion. Vail-Ballou Press, Inc., Binghamton,
New York, 1950.
Fromm describes religion is his terms which would consider Nazism a religion.
He goes into detail about civilizations need for an object of devotion like
Hitler had served as. He also goes into detail about humanities fear of living
alone and thusly following a group at any cost, even if they don't agree with
what the group stands for. This would show why Nazism was adopted by so many.
3. Personality Theories: Erich Fromm 1900-1980. Boeree, George C., April 2,
2005. <http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/fromm.html>
The author tells in detail about the irrationality of mass behavior. He also
describes the three ways in which humans escape from freedom, based on Fromm?s
ideas. Boeree also explains why Germans would be so ready to accept the Nazist
religion.
4. Jacobs, Alan. "Aspects of Survival: Triumph over Death and Onliness." Idea
Journal. January 11, 1997 vol. 2. No. 1.
The author describes the German Nazi's need for power which inevitably leads to
the destructive of the other race. It continues to look at the point of view
that Germans saw the Jews as evil and they needed to be controlled.
5. Fromm, Erich. Beyond the Chains of Illusion. My encounters with Marx and
Freud. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1962.
I took from this Fromm book the humanist need to exceed nature, the want to be
above it, and the actions that humans go about in order to overpower it as
Hitler had when he decided he had the right to play god by killing others.
Melissa
Becky
Evan